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Ooops, looks like the hero prosecutor down in Georgia isn't so squeaky clean. Go figure...
House Republicans fired off a subpoena for Trump prosecutor Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after allegations that she misused Department of Justice funds and fired a whistleblower that tried to prevent it.
In a letter Friday obtained by DailyMail.com, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan claimed that Willis' team was planning to misuse a $488,000 grant earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention to pay for 'swag' including new computers and travel.
According to a Free Beacon report, Willis aide Michael Cuffe was behind the alleged scheme to misuse taxpayer dollars.
Jordan writes that when a whistleblower - Amanda Timpson - told Willis of the alleged plot, she was promptly fired.
'He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, 'We can't do that,'' Timpson told Willis in during a November 19, 2021, meeting according to a recording of the conversation obtained by the Free Beacon.
'He told everybody … 'We're going to get MacBooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.' I said, 'You cannot do that, it's a very, very specific grant.''
'I respect that is your assessment,' Willis replied. 'And I'm not saying that your assessment is wrong.'
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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) confers with lead prosecutors, Donald Wakeford (left) and Nathan Wade, during a hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Friday, July 1, 2022
But less than two months later, Timpson was axed from the office and escorted out of the office by seven armed investigators.
Jim Jordan is demanding all documents and communications 'referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office's receipt and use of federal funds' and 'referring or relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds.'
Willis' office has rebuffed earlier documents requests from the committee, saying there is 'no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter.'
Willis has come under fire from Republicans following reports she tapped her lover Nathan Wade to lead the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump.
Last month the committee demanded documents related to Willis' relationship with Wade, noting that he had been paid more than $650,000 - at a rate of $250 an hour - to work on the investigation and prosecution of Trump and other federal officials, according to a new court filing.
The committee noted federal funds may have been used to pay Wade, granting them jurisdiction to investigate. It highlighted the 'enormous legal fees' Wade had billed the DA's office for, in one instance, on November 5, 2021, charging for 24 hours of legal work in one day, claiming to have worked all day and night on the prosecution.
House Republicans fired off a subpoena for Trump prosecutor Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after allegations that she misused Department of Justice funds and fired a whistleblower that tried to prevent it.
In a letter Friday obtained by DailyMail.com, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan claimed that Willis' team was planning to misuse a $488,000 grant earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention to pay for 'swag' including new computers and travel.
According to a Free Beacon report, Willis aide Michael Cuffe was behind the alleged scheme to misuse taxpayer dollars.
Jordan writes that when a whistleblower - Amanda Timpson - told Willis of the alleged plot, she was promptly fired.
'He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, 'We can't do that,'' Timpson told Willis in during a November 19, 2021, meeting according to a recording of the conversation obtained by the Free Beacon.
'He told everybody … 'We're going to get MacBooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.' I said, 'You cannot do that, it's a very, very specific grant.''
'I respect that is your assessment,' Willis replied. 'And I'm not saying that your assessment is wrong.'
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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) confers with lead prosecutors, Donald Wakeford (left) and Nathan Wade, during a hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Friday, July 1, 2022
But less than two months later, Timpson was axed from the office and escorted out of the office by seven armed investigators.
Jim Jordan is demanding all documents and communications 'referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office's receipt and use of federal funds' and 'referring or relating to any allegations of the misuse of federal funds.'
Willis' office has rebuffed earlier documents requests from the committee, saying there is 'no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter.'
Willis has come under fire from Republicans following reports she tapped her lover Nathan Wade to lead the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump.
Last month the committee demanded documents related to Willis' relationship with Wade, noting that he had been paid more than $650,000 - at a rate of $250 an hour - to work on the investigation and prosecution of Trump and other federal officials, according to a new court filing.
The committee noted federal funds may have been used to pay Wade, granting them jurisdiction to investigate. It highlighted the 'enormous legal fees' Wade had billed the DA's office for, in one instance, on November 5, 2021, charging for 24 hours of legal work in one day, claiming to have worked all day and night on the prosecution.
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